Filmwasters
Which Board? => Main Forum => Topic started by: Ken B: eyes, I just do eyes. on July 16, 2013, 09:18:10 AM
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I have never seen anything she has done, however she is everything I want in an actress
Clue here (http://metro.co.uk/2013/07/16/actress-katie-leung-if-i-met-ryan-gosling-id-probably-just-cry-3883208/)
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After finishing Harry Potter, you did a photography course at university. What’s the best photo you’ve taken? I don’t know if it’s my best but I do have a favourite. It’s a picture of a window, and below it is an empty desk with a chair in front of it, which my jacket is hanging from. It looks like a person is there without a head. It’s very abstract and very arty. I love Henri Cartier-Bresson and Irving Penn – I’m into compositions and angles and space. I took the photo with a film camera.
Is your camera very hi-tech? I have a Contax G2 – the poor man’s version of a Leica. I absolute love it. I stick to a fixed lens. I love old-school photography.
Are you big on Instagram? I am. Instagram makes me go against all my principles. But I do love it. I follow a guy called JR – I don’t know his name but I’m in love with his photography. He plasters them on massive buildings.
Good for her!! I love the way she gets some proper photography and film talk into what it usually a very brief/superficial interview format.
Well spotted, Ken.
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Well spotted, Ken.
Thanks Ed
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I just sent Katie a supportive Tweet from the Filmwasters Twitter account with a link pointing back here. Hopefully it won't scare her off film photography for life ;D
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Och shee must bee nice cozz shee cumms frae Scotland, so ther 8) 8)
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I never fail to understand why young people call it 'old-school photography'. It sounds as though people who still use film ought to be walking around in mortar boards, black capes wielding a cane!! Hmmm might try that on the wife tonight... "i'm an old-school photographer dontcha' know..." thwack! thwack! ;D
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I never fail to understand why young people call it 'old-school photography'. It sounds as though people who still use film ought to be walking around in mortar boards, black capes wielding a cane!! Hmmm might try that on the wife tonight... "i'm an old-school photographer dontcha' know..." thwack! thwack! ;D
All a matter of perspective and age I guess! Old school photography to me would be tintypes and glass plates.
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I never fail to understand why young people call it 'old-school photography'. It sounds as though people who still use film ought to be walking around in mortar boards, black capes wielding a cane!! Hmmm might try that on the wife tonight... "i'm an old-school photographer dontcha' know..." thwack! thwack!
You've been reading Fifty Shades of Grey Card...
I spotted more peeps of the description above than Katie Leung types at Photographica... :-\
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I never fail to understand why young people call it 'old-school photography'.
Paul, it might be a case of using that term for the sake of the person you're talking too (i.e. to give them a quick reference point) rather than it being the view of the person speaking. I know I do this all the time. I don't think of film photography as being 'old fashioned' particularly, but when I'm discussing photography with person-down-the-pub and want to distinguish what I do from digital photography I do find myself using the term, "old school photography" as a reinforcement.
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As I see both film and digital as parallel technologies that are current and relevant, I tend to just refer to "film photography" and "digital photography". If people see one as old-school and the other new and exciting, that's their problem....
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Seems like in the past quite a few actors were also photographers. Yul Brenner comes to mind.
I'm old, so all my favorite actress's and actors are old or dead, sigh.
Except perhaps Emma Thompson, a real stunner.
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Hi John,
dont forget about 'the Dude', he uses a Widelux F8.
http://fstoppers.com/jeff-bridges-honored-for-photography (http://fstoppers.com/jeff-bridges-honored-for-photography)
Cheers,
Christian
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Leonard Nimoy is a great photographer too.
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And who can forget the patron saint of 3D photography...the late and very great Vincent Price.
http://youtu.be/QadGZHUY2Og (http://youtu.be/QadGZHUY2Og)
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I don't think of film photography as being 'old fashioned' particularly, but when I'm discussing photography with person-down-the-pub and want to distinguish what I do from digital photography I do find myself using the term, "old school photography" as a reinforcement.
Sometimes I say "with a camera" as reinforcement. ;)
I'm a computer geek by trade (more of a geek herder these days), so there's often this similar question, "Do you program?" I usually say, "Not really, unless you call scripting programming." I suppose if you ask me if I've shot anything this week, I'm likely to say, "Not really, unless you count Instagram."
Sometimes I think of that when people ask about photography. Do you mean do I own a DSLR? Have I been published? Do I have pictures of my kid on my phone? Do I make any tangible images via any visually reproductive process?
Do I take pictures? Almost daily.
Do I make pictures? Very rarely. Not enough.
Do I call myself a photographer? Almost never. Sometimes amateur photographer.
The worst question is, "What kind of photography do you do?" What do they mean? Color? Film? Surrealist? Portraiture? Color film surrealist portraiture? "Slacker photography. I walk around with a camera to avoid doing the dishes."
Easiest is to just reach in my bag, break out a 40-year-old camera, and they say, "Oh." Hard to find a sympathetic 'waster in these parts. Either they're bitheads and want to talk iPhones and Photoshop or they're pros and don't really care. :)